Hacker News
new
|
past
|
comments
|
ask
|
show
|
jobs
|
submit
login
eli
on May 19, 2010
|
parent
|
context
|
favorite
| on:
DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
These aren't really offsite images. ddgw.s3.amazonaws.com
is
a server instance run by DDG. It just happens to live in Amazon's cloud.
jacquesm
on May 19, 2010
|
next
[–]
Yes, but the headers are sent in plaintext.
epi0Bauqu
on May 19, 2010
|
parent
|
next
[–]
I don't think they are actually:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-enc...
jacquesm
on May 19, 2010
|
root
|
parent
|
next
[–]
That was about the headers to the image server which was not using https at the time I believe ?
eli
on May 19, 2010
|
parent
|
prev
|
next
[–]
No, they aren't.
jacquesm
on May 19, 2010
|
root
|
parent
|
next
[–]
Not any more but they were when that was written. See:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362122
mike-cardwell
on May 19, 2010
|
prev
[–]
I think you might be confusing S3 with EC2? I think "offsite images" is an apt description for stuff served from Amazons web frontend to S3... DDG don't run it, they just upload the content to it.
Consider applying for YC's Spring batch! Applications are open till Feb 11.
Guidelines
|
FAQ
|
Lists
|
API
|
Security
|
Legal
|
Apply to YC
|
Contact
Search:
